(Featured in the Winter issue of Nature Conservancy Magazine.)
Len Zeoli, a graduate student at Washington State University, expected the fieldwork for his doctoral research to last about two years. In March 2007, he began tracking 20 endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits. The mango-sized, sagebrush-munching animals one of the rare rabbit species to dig its own burrow had been bred and raised in captivity and released on a 3,500-acre plot of state land in eastern Washington.
But Zeoli’s field time was to end a few short months later. Most of the rabbits had dispersed or were eaten by predators. By late summer, only two remained.
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